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WeRateDogs

@weratedogs.com

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

Since bluesky is the sports app

I'm gonna throw this out there

If you're at a sporting event, especially a major one, you should be trying to get a "Fuck ICE" chant going

Nothing will change media narrative faster than 20k people at a world cup game chanting fuck ICE

January 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

If you're a democratic politician, this should be your rallying cry

Americans do not need a paramilitary dictating their every move

MWunicorn @mwunicorn.bsky.social · Jan 10

Americans have become allergic to freedom

January 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

Americans have become allergic to freedom

January 10, 2026 at 6:03 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

If I get killed by an unaccountable government paramilitary and they report I was in an "anit-ICE" chat, please correct them that it was at least 3 chats and that I also had D&D Wednesday and Sunday nights.

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Jan 9

If I get killed by unaccountable government paramilitaries and they report that I was in an “anti-ICE” chat, please also put in the paper that I am in a chat with a bunch of dudes (gender neutral) who coordinate getting sandwiches every first Wednesday of the month for the siren.

January 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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🏳️‍⚧️ The Milkmaid of Human Kindness

@josie.zone

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

archive.is/ur35j

First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people
who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.
This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind, In fact, kindness radiated out of her.
Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn't wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine,
Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it Where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.
Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles,

What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy: And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.
We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine
On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.
Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.
We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee's legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love. E

January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

If Americans don't receive the protection of the 4th amendment, then neither does Jonathan Ross

January 9, 2026 at 12:59 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

The things I want to say about what happened in Minnesota today would get me a visit.

What I will say is every single person who voted to create, fund, and empower America's gestapo has blood on their hands

January 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

Just finding @grateful42069.bsky.social posts in the wild

January 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

January 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

"He's a couple of eggs short of a dozen, and the other ten are rocks"

3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · Dec 23

What's an insult you'll never forget?

December 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

If it happens today I'll go to church on Sunday

December 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

Now watching

a man with a red beard is standing next to a stuffed gnome in front of a building .

ALT: a man with a red beard is standing next to a stuffed gnome in front of a building .

media.tenor.com

December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

Finally got to do some combat in the Daggerheart game.
That's a fun experience! I really enjoyed the Cinematic elements of it

December 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM

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Matt

@mbunchanumbers.bsky.social

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

If FIFA wasn't as corrupt as the government of the United States it would move the World Cup

Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · Dec 3

The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 2026 World Cup in the United States: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

US: ICE Arrest at FIFA Event Spotlights Dangers for World Cup

The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 20...

www.hrw.org

December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Crowd Control (on Dropout)

@crowdcontroldo.bsky.social

Bummer birthday is right 😅

#crowdcontrol

November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

The Rams deserve to lose because of their jerseys

November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

NEW ACHIEVEMENT:
you've finished every available book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Reward: you laughed you cried... isn't that reward enough? Touch grass loser

November 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

Just got back from seeing Nuremberg.
Incredible performances by the cast.
Can't watch it and not think about modern similarities.

November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM

MWunicorn

@mwunicorn.bsky.social

1) Independent media. News organizations have to independently owned and operated. No stocks, no conglomerates, basically ran like a nonprofit
2) social media is banned. We've proven as a society that we can't handle it
3) Trump voters can't vote for 10 years or until they pass a basic civics test

Talia "'Brown/Trans/Les' OUT NOW!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Nov 14

"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM